Northwest Voices is a collaboration between the Longview Public Library and Lower Columbia College. The Library welcomes this opportunity to bring community and writers together. Come listen, join in the dialog, and celebrate the voices of our region and our community.

Libraries and writers are natural community partners. Both seek to reach out to readers, to stimulate thinking, to engage people in the pursuit of ideas--the writer as creator and the library as enabler.

Funding comes from the Longview Public Library and the Longview Library Foundation, the Lower Columbia College Foundation, the Friends of the Longview Library, and the Associated Students of Lower Columbia College. All events are free and open to the public.

Coming Events

Greg Bear
October 21, 2008

Greg Bear is the award winning author of more than thirty books of science fiction and fantasy. His newest book, City at the End of Time, links three young drifters in present-day Seattle with an unimaginably distant future. When the drifters answer an odd newspaper advertisement, they soon find themselves caught up in a war between mysterious and powerful forces. Two not-quite-humans, creations of a million-year experiment, have discovered that their ancient fortress/city, perhaps the last refuge of intelligence in a dying universe, is about to fall before the onslaught of chaos. They have been chosen by beings evolved far beyond mere matter to undertake a dangerous mission to preserve the universe’s last vestiges of consciousness. Somehow the two groups engage in telepathic communication despite the eons that separate them.

This Northwest Voices event will include an afternoon workshop at LCC and an evening reading at the library. Visit the author's website here.

Suzanne Martinson
November 12, 2008

Martinson is the author of The Fallingwater Cookbook, due out in October of this year. The Fallingwater Cookbook captures the experience of fine and casual dining at this famed home. Suzanne Martinson, former food editor and writer for the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, relates recipes from Elsie Henderson, the Kaufmann cook at Fallingwater, along with Henderson’s memories of life at the house. The book also includes recipes from chef Robert Sendall, cooking instructor Jane Citron, and Mary Ann Moreau, former chef of the Fallingwater Café, along with photos of food, family, and Fallingwater.

Kathleen Flenniken
January 27, 2009

Poet Kathleen Flennikan will join us for our annual celebration of William Stafford's birthday. More information is available at Ms. Flenniken's website.

Molly Gloss
March 3, 2009

Molly Gloss will be this year's One Book author. The book is Gloss' The Hearts of Horses. Her website has more information.